QuickTime for .NET and COM Developers

By

John Cromie, Skylark Associates, Ballybofey, Ireland and one of the principal architects of Apple's QuickTime ActiveX/COM control for Windows.

At the heart of Apple's hugely popular iLife software suiteâiMovie, iPhoto, iDVD, GarageBand, and iTunesâis QuickTime, the powerful media engine that drives elegant applications for managing movies, images, and audio files. The enduring success of QuickTime is in no small part attributable to its component architecture. This key feature has allowed it to embrace emerging digital media technologies and standards one by one as they have appeared over the 12 or so years since its launch. None of the competing technologies even comes close, let alone on both Mac OS X and Windows.

QuickTime for .NET and COM Developers is the first guide to QuickTime for developers using popular RAD tools such a Visual Basic .NET, C#, and Visual Basic 6. A general introduction to QuickTime is followed by a detailed explanation of the QuickTime architecture from a.NET and COM perspective, liberally accompanied by code snippets. A number of implementation examples illustrate key QuickTime features, ranging from a simple movie player to a sophisticated interactive application. Also covered is QuickTime scripting in both QuickTime Player (using Windows Scripting) and in Microsoft Office applications (using VBA). Brief guides to developing with QuickTime in Delphi and ATL/WTL are also included.

Part of the official Quicktime Developer Series, publishing the finest books on QuickTime in cooperation with Apple.

Book information

Published: January 2006

Imprint: MORGAN KAUFMANN

ISBN: 978-0-12-774575-6

Reviews

"This book addresses QuickTime development on Windows using the QuickTime COM components that were released by Apple with QuickTime 7...This book includes many code snippets and examples to illustrate key QuickTime features." - HiTech Review, July/Aug. 2006